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They do this crap quite often. The Daily Show busted them trying to inflate the crowd size for a Tea Party rally in Washington, by using footage from a previous rally. You could tell the footage came from different times of the year because of the color of the leaves on the tree and the weather were different in the crowd footage compared to the actual footage.

To be fair, I watch Fox News quite often but with all honesty, I don't know what to think of this.

I sincerely think FNC is simply using old/similar footage as a way to convey their coverage (or if they don't have footage of particular story). Seriously, this occurs all the time in various medias where the communicator uses footage/photos in an effort to visualize an event.

Faux News lies. Period. It is a mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch and his Republican cronies. Anybody that does not understand this (there is no "believe" involved, it is simply understanding as neither Faux nor Murdoch actually dispute this) should not be commenting here. They should go off and read Marshall McLuhan "The Media is the Message" and not be posting here.

This is being completely overblown because the protestors have nothing legitimate to latch onto.

Here's what I think. This clip is being taken out of context. The reporter said that there are people from outside of Wisconsin who are there. Then he said that he ran into a union man who he had a confrontation with last year in California.

Then he showed the altercation with the man while he was still talking. Fox should have clarified that the footage was from California, not Wisconsin.

However given that it was palm trees and sunny in the video, and the correspondant was talking about an encounter in California, I think it falls on us smart people to decipher what is happening.

@MKEcathYour absolutely right. Follow the conversation and you get the point of protests happening in other towns. In the second clip you can see a sign pertaining to Indiana. The whole budget topic is hard to discuss when these stupid accusations and nitpicking issues are thrown out there.

"...I think it falls on us smart people to decipher what is happening."

MKEcath - What percentage of FOX News viewers who were watching the telecast do you think did realize they weren't seeing footage from the Wisconsin protests? If they weren't, to use your word "smart" enough to decipher what was happening, what does that say about those FOX News viewers? What does that say FOX News thinks of the smartness of their viewers?

"However given that it was palm trees and sunny in the video, and the correspondant was talking about an encounter in California, I think it falls on us smart people to decipher what is happening."

Yeah -- what's happening is that for all the supposed unpleasantness in Madison for the last two weeks, Fox couldn't come up with a single clip of anyone giving somebody a big fat shove. They had to dig deep for that one, and it's pretty easy to decipher why they inserted that into a story told from a reporter live in Madison.

Also on Fox in the last week, I saw a quick set of four frames as a teaser for content after upcoming commercials. Each video image purportedly showed protests around the country. Dominating one frame was a large handmade sign that said, "FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND." Let's be real here. Not only do these protests have nothing to do with that issue, it's pretty obvious that only a plant would contrive such a ridiculous and inflammatory message. (See some none-too-bright plans for this kind of behavior by a one-time leading Tea Party activist: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/21/mark-williams-infiltrate-seiu/ )